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Sunday, March 25, 2012

Consulting Continuum 2012

SJMSOM successfully concluded the 1st leg
of the annual continuum series today under the capable management of Consig,
the consulting club. The theme for the Consulting Continuum was - "Sustainability
spawning new standards".

The Consulting Continuum saw excellent participation in thePre-Event competition Convoluted which was anonline quizfollowed by a case studywith over 100 participants from
various B-Schools across the nation. The eventual winners were

·Winners - The Gunners
( NITIE)

·1st Runner-up
- Lord Labak Das (IIM Calcutta)

·2nd Runner-up - Front
runners (IIM Indore)

The consulting continuum started with an inauguration speech
by Professor Shishir Jha of SJMSOM. Professor Jha has been on the Editorial
Board of the International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management
and was the Project Lead of Creative
Commons. He is also a member
of the IP policy review committee and IPR cell at IIT Bombay. His areas of
interest include digital economy, copyright and public domain in the digital
economy, WTO, global political economy and International relations among many
others.

His introduction was followed by
the first speaker Mr. Gaurav Gupta, Partner and regional director for Asia at Dalberg global development advisors. He gave a
very interesting view on how to bring about sustainability without talking
about it. The next speaker was Mr. Ritesh Chopra, Director and India
lead at Capgemini consulting. He gave some very interesting insights on harnessing
the power of social media. This was followed by a panel discussion on managing
the business risks of open innovation. The members of this panel were Mr.
Ranjan Banerjee, CEO of Renaissance strategic consultants, Mr. Sandip
Biswas, Director, strategy and operations at Deloitte consulting and Ms.
Sangeeta Sawant, Client partner at Bristlecone. The panel, moderated by
Prof. Shishir Jha, engaged the audience in a very lively and humorous
discussion covering the breadth of the topic right from the inception of
innovation to its marketability. This discussion was followed by a speech from Mr.
Praneet Gupta, India
strategy leader at Cummins ltd who talked about India’s growth and globalization
and how it would affect us. The last speaker for the day was Mr. Malay Shah,
Senior principal of strategy at Infosys consulting. He shared his views on
building Indian infrastructure to sustain India’s growth and achieve social
objectives.